Well I would not go with 30%, but here are some numbers: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp
According to w3schools.com, 27% of IE users, are still using IE6. I can not believe that Microsoft is just abandoning 27% of there users. Thats not 27% of browser users, or 27% of people on the Internet, that's 27% of the population that uses Internet explorer as a browser. Cruel Microsoft, Truly Cruel.
How would you feel if one day your ethernet cable manufacturer came in and said "Starting in 2 months, we are no longer going to support cat-5 cable" and your networking vendor said "well, we are going to stop making packets that work with cat5, as your cable vendor no longer supports that product" The major cable provider stops supporting something, then all the little network people see the push from the big cable provider, and all the sudden your building still has 27% cat-5 and you do not know when, if or how it is going to work or stop working.
What is even MORE ironic is the whitepapers page http://mcafee.com/us/threat_center/white_paper.html that links to the article saying that adobe reader is going to be a upcoming threat in 2010, ALSO links to adobe reader!
Just hours after we reported that NASA budget cuts would lead to the shut down of the Mars rover "Spirit," we received this from NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs:
"There is a process that has to be followed for any mission to be canceled and the cancellation of the Mars Exploration Rovers is not under consideration. There is an ongoing budget review within the agency's Mars exploration program. However, shutting down of one of the rovers is not an option."
And this from NASA Administrator Michael Griffin:
"NASA will not shut down one of the Mars rovers."
But when I called rover principal investigator Steve Squyres back, he said he hadn't heard anything additional from anyone at NASA, and wonders whether the directive to cut $4 million out of his budget still stands. He says it is a question of simple math...if he has to cut $4 million, then he has to shut down a rover. It's that simple.
I have no idea how they got the 36.4% number. From data on pcpitstop.com (the claimed source of the information) 1.012 percent of the computers tested by pcpitstop have had limewire installed and running (source: http://pcpitstop.com/spycheck/SWDetail.asp?fn=LimeWire.exe I have no idea how 36.4% of all computers, comes out of 1.012% of the sample running the product.
Wow, how can this be insightful. You are 100% correct about a 64 bit kernel not supporting 32 bit DRIVERS (unless a kernel level emulation layer is implemented). The thing to keep in mind is that most of the other OSes (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, and IBM z/OS) have control of their own drivers, and therefore can more easily implement kernel level changes such as 64 bit support, which requires driver and library modifications. Linux is not mentioned above, because it does have 3rd party drivers (kernel modiules). If the source is provided, and the system is already running a 64 bit Linux kernel, then it is fairly non-trivial to compile the module with 64 bit support.
All of these OSes have had 64 bit operating systems for at least a decade, if not more. Supercomputers and their operating systems had 64 bit support back in the 60's, Solaris had 64 bit hardware in 1997 and a 64 bit operating system in the late 90's. In the grand scheme of things, the X86 chipset, and thus Windows X86 is very new to the 64 bit world. (keep in mind, that Windows NT on alpha had 64 bit support in the 1999-2000 timeframe, but again, the scope of drivers was limited so this was not an as difficult migration).
Microsoft faces the problem that drivers for Windows come from thousands of sources/vendors. Every little piece of hardware that windows supports, has a driver. This has worked well for Microsoft because the Driver API was very open, and pluggable, allowing for all these vendors to support the Windows OS.
The problem Microsoft faces now is that all of those millions of drivers from thousands of people need to be recompiled, following a strict set of rules (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/64bit_chklist.mspx) to support the 64 bit operating system.
Until Microsoft provides a kernel level emulation layer to allow 32 bit drivers to continue to function on its 64 bit X86 operating system, or 5 years pass allowing all these drivers to be re-built, the drivers will continue to be a barrier for Windows to a player in the 64 bit OS space.
The other OSes did not have as many 3rd party drivers floating around, but microsoft is faced with this unique situation.
Airliners.net has some good information on the A380 aircraft, and the history of the devlopment.
You can also see tons of pictures of the A380, both the ground test aircraft and the first flight aircraft.
I have been folowing the MER stuff a bit, and when they put these suckers on mars, I would have never expected them to last this long. Remember that Pathfinder lasted about 90 days. If everything went as it should, I would have expected one of the two MER rovers to last 200 days.
Both rovers are still up and running, and pushing 340 days of operation. At this rate, one of them is sure to last 365 days.
I think we do not give enough credit to this program. the MER team took a robot, threw it on a rocket, sent it to mars, had it land on mars, and both rovers have been running for over 300 days. I think this is just simply amazing.
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I have been doing some laptop shopping. So far I have not given microsoft any of my money, homebuilt PCs have avoided the microsoft tax. I would love to get an IBM or dell laptop, just don't want to get the microsoft crap that comes with the laptop.
>> While this may or may not attract more people to ham radio, it will make it easier for the novice to use packet radio devices > Did you mean Novice class licensees, or new licensees?
I dont know, that is the editors addition:-)
I do like the idea of the code requirement going away. I feel that the FCC should drop the code requirement, but add some code questions to the extra test to show that code is known. I do not think that we have a need for code to be a requirment for the general exam.
All this assumes that the band plans leave blocks for dedicated code use. I would hate to see all the code blocks be moved to phone or packet. Code does still have its place in the amateur radio world, just dont think it should be a requirement to operate on HF.
The best one I can think of was when Sun Microsystems came to told us that some of the e-cache errors we where getting are caused by cosmic rays. I think they even brought a Astrophysicist in.
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Well I would not go with 30%, but here are some numbers:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp
According to w3schools.com, 27% of IE users, are still using IE6. I can not believe that Microsoft is just abandoning 27% of there users. Thats not 27% of browser users, or 27% of people on the Internet, that's 27% of the population that uses Internet explorer as a browser. Cruel Microsoft, Truly Cruel.
How would you feel if one day your ethernet cable manufacturer came in and said "Starting in 2 months, we are no longer going to support cat-5 cable" and your networking vendor said "well, we are going to stop making packets that work with cat5, as your cable vendor no longer supports that product" The major cable provider stops supporting something, then all the little network people see the push from the big cable provider, and all the sudden your building still has 27% cat-5 and you do not know when, if or how it is going to work or stop working.
Welcome to the world of your users.
What is even MORE ironic is the whitepapers page http://mcafee.com/us/threat_center/white_paper.html that links to the article saying that adobe reader is going to be a upcoming threat in 2010, ALSO links to adobe reader!
I have no idea how they got the 36.4% number. From data on pcpitstop.com (the claimed source of the information) 1.012 percent of the computers tested by pcpitstop have had limewire installed and running (source: http://pcpitstop.com/spycheck/SWDetail.asp?fn=LimeWire.exe I have no idea how 36.4% of all computers, comes out of 1.012% of the sample running the product.
Wow, how can this be insightful.
You are 100% correct about a 64 bit kernel not supporting 32 bit DRIVERS (unless a kernel level emulation layer is implemented). The thing to keep in mind is that most of the other OSes (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, and IBM z/OS) have control of their own drivers, and therefore can more easily implement kernel level changes such as 64 bit support, which requires driver and library modifications.
Linux is not mentioned above, because it does have 3rd party drivers (kernel modiules). If the source is provided, and the system is already running a 64 bit Linux kernel, then it is fairly non-trivial to compile the module with 64 bit support.
All of these OSes have had 64 bit operating systems for at least a decade, if not more. Supercomputers and their operating systems had 64 bit support back in the 60's, Solaris had 64 bit hardware in 1997 and a 64 bit operating system in the late 90's. In the grand scheme of things, the X86 chipset, and thus Windows X86 is very new to the 64 bit world. (keep in mind, that Windows NT on alpha had 64 bit support in the 1999-2000 timeframe, but again, the scope of drivers was limited so this was not an as difficult migration).
Microsoft faces the problem that drivers for Windows come from thousands of sources/vendors. Every little piece of hardware that windows supports, has a driver. This has worked well for Microsoft because the Driver API was very open, and pluggable, allowing for all these vendors to support the Windows OS.
The problem Microsoft faces now is that all of those millions of drivers from thousands of people need to be recompiled, following a strict set of rules (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/64bit_chklist.mspx) to support the 64 bit operating system.
Until Microsoft provides a kernel level emulation layer to allow 32 bit drivers to continue to function on its 64 bit X86 operating system, or 5 years pass allowing all these drivers to be re-built, the drivers will continue to be a barrier for Windows to a player in the 64 bit OS space.
The other OSes did not have as many 3rd party drivers floating around, but microsoft is faced with this unique situation.
Well, need iPhone support? contact Cisco!?
Well, they both have been in the PDA business (Wasn't the newton the first real PDA?)
I do not know if it made it in to the final version, but Sun had talked about intigrating grub in to Solaris 10 X86.
Airliners.net has some good information on the A380 aircraft, and the history of the devlopment.
You can also see tons of pictures of the A380, both the ground test aircraft and the first flight aircraft.
So, are these rovers going to make it to being opearional a year after they landed?
I find it amazing that they can throw robots on a rocket, have them land on another planet, and they remain functional for over 300 days.
The odds this object will hit the earth are 1 in 56,000
:-)
The odds that you will be hit by lightning are 1 600,000
Now how do you feel
I have been folowing the MER stuff a bit, and when they put these suckers on mars, I would have never expected them to last this long. Remember that Pathfinder lasted about 90 days. If everything went as it should, I would have expected one of the two MER rovers to last 200 days.
Both rovers are still up and running, and pushing 340 days of operation. At this rate, one of them is sure to last 365 days.
I think we do not give enough credit to this program. the MER team took a robot, threw it on a rocket, sent it to mars, had it land on mars, and both rovers have been running for over 300 days. I think this is just simply amazing.
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I am glad to see sun going in to an open source direction, but how long will it last this time?
When Solaris 8 source was released, it was not exaclty open source, and did not last long at all.
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(Note that it probably uses technology acquired when they bought Kaltix last year)
The google image name is google_kaltix_results.gif so thats a good hint that it is from the Kaltix technology
I have been doing some laptop shopping. So far I have not given microsoft any of my money, homebuilt PCs have avoided the microsoft tax. I would love to get an IBM or dell laptop, just don't want to get the microsoft crap that comes with the laptop.
I iave yet to see a open door policy that is open door, without said door hitting you in the rear end on the way out.
Sun's Java Desktop is not just java. It is a SuSe Install running a modfied version of Gnome,7 78
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4
It is just sun's latest thing to "brand" everything java, I guess.
>> While this may or may not attract more people to ham radio, it will make it easier for the novice to use packet radio devices
:-)
> Did you mean Novice class licensees, or new licensees?
I dont know, that is the editors addition
I do like the idea of the code requirement going away. I feel that the FCC should drop the code requirement, but add some code questions to the extra test to show that code is known. I do not think that we have a need for code to be a requirment for the general exam.
All this assumes that the band plans leave blocks for dedicated code use. I would hate to see all the code blocks be moved to phone or packet. Code does still have its place in the amateur radio world, just dont think it should be a requirement to operate on HF.
Almost correct. In the E15K product anouncment, Solaris 9 on a E15K will scale linearly to 72 cpus. After that it starts to drop off a bit.
The best one I can think of was when Sun Microsystems came to told us that some of the e-cache errors we where getting are caused by cosmic rays. I think they even brought a Astrophysicist in.